AMD Athlon 64 3800+ & Tul AX480A-GF 2005 • CPU Special Issue Page(s) 72-73 in print issue Add To My Personal Library AMD Athlon 64 3800+ & Tul AX480A-GF The Tul AX480A-GF was the third and final motherboard in line for the Athlon 64 3800+, and this one was a doozy. When overclocking multiple motherboards on a single processor, we find it’s best to use the same drivers whenever possible. This is one situation when driver uniformity wasn’t possible, at least not at first. We like to call the AX480A-GF the little motherboard that could. Tul’s AX480A-GF motherboard is built around ATI’s Radeon Xpress 200P chipset, also known as the RX480, for socket 939 Athlon 64 processors. This chipset favors discrete PCI-Express graphics, unlike its sister, the Radeon Xpress 200 (RS480), which features an integrated X300-based GPU. This motherboard is one of the cheaper PCI-Express motherboards out there, ringing in at $92 before shipping. Tul’s subdued color scheme consists of a red PCB with beige and black PCI and PCI-E slots. The memory slots are black and blue. The two IDE ports are blue and white, while the floppy port is black. The four SATA ports, heatsink mounting frame, and onboard speaker are all black. A silver aluminum northbridge
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